sex crimes
In preparation for his Chicago sex crimes trial in August, R. Kelly has opted to fire his current legal team and replace them with Bill Cosby’s appellate attorney, Jennifer Bonjean.
R. Kelly’s trial was scheduled to take place in Chicago next month, but it has reportedly been postponed until October due to new evidence. Investigators executed a search warrant and now have over 100 electronic devices to search. Kelly has been held without bond since July 2019 and plead guilty to federal sex crimes.
Valencia Love, the business woman who posted the $100,000 bond for R. Kelly following his arrest on various sex crimes, is now demanding her money be returned in light of the singer’s indictment. On Tuesday, a Cook County judge ruled that she’s not entitled to receive her money back, at least not right away, the Chicago Sun Times reports. […]
CHICAGO (AP) — Federal judges will decide how to proceed with bond hearings in two separate federal indictments against R. Kelly. The 52-year-old singer was arrested Thursday night while walking his dog on a 13-count indictment that includes sex crimes and obstruction of justice. A New York federal indictment was also unsealed Friday that charges […]
CHICAGO (AP) — Singer R. Kelly, already facing sexual abuse charges brought by Illinois prosecutors, was arrested in Chicago Thursday on a federal grand jury indictment listing 13 counts including sex crimes and obstruction of justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office spokesman Joseph Fitzpatrick said the R&B singer was taken into custody about 7 p.m. local time […]
One of Jerry Sandusky’s sons was charged Monday with sex crimes involving two girls, more than five years after the former Penn State assistant coach was himself first arrested on child molestation charges. Jeffrey S. Sandusky, 41, was charged by state police and arraigned by a district judge in Bellefonte on 14 counts. He was […]
A pastor and his wife are being accused of using their organization as a front to lure teen girls into sexual abuse. In 1999, pastor James Jackson and his wife, Valerie founded P.H.A.T. Positive Habitat Aspiring Teens in Palm Beach, Florida. The nonprofit organization was said to have a goal which would enable teens to […]
We have a crisis in our country when a white police officer who is sworn to protect and serve his community is charged with boldly preying on eight black women by pulling them over for routine traffic stops, raping and sodomizing them, threatening them with jail or physical harm if they tell, and then return to […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says sexual assaults are a threat to both women and men in uniform. And he says the Pentagon must do more to fight a culture that discourages victims from reporting assault. Hagel says reports of sexual assaults by military members rose 50 percent last year, showing that more […]
Men who like women’s feet are going to get a bad rap today thanks to the criminal acts of one overzealous man in North Carolina.…
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